US EditionLupita Nyong'o Reveals Why She Turned Down Roles After Her Oscar Win
After winning an Academy Award, Lupita Nyong'o received repeated offers for slave roles instead of lead parts, highlighting ongoing industry typecasting and stereotypes.
- On November 22, 2014, Lupita Nyong'o said her Oscar for Patsey in 12 Years a Slave led to offers repeating slavery roles, including one set on a slave ship.
- Facing intense media scrutiny, thinkpieces about Nyong'o's career asked `Is this the beginning and end of this dark-skinned Black African woman's career?` and she said she had to deafen herself to those pontificators.
- Rejecting stereotyped parts, Nyong'o said she would work one job less yearly to avoid perpetuating stereotypes and called herself a "joyful warrior for changing the paradigms of what it means to be African."
- After 12 Years a Slave, Lupita Nyong'o secured roles in the Star Wars and Marvel franchises and will next appear in the upcoming film Lunik Heist.
- Earlier this year, in a CNN Inside Africa interview, Lupita Nyong'o told Angélique Kidjo the Oscar "really did set the paces for everything I've done since," and she was most recently in The Wild Robot and A Quiet Place: Day One.
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Lupita Nyong'o Says She Was Offered 'Another Movie Where You're a Slave' After Winning Oscar for '12 Years a Slave'
Nyong'o looked back on the time following her Oscar-winning feature film debut and how she navigated avoiding "perpetuating stereotypes" with her rolesArnold Turner/Getty Honoree Lupita Nyong'o attends the Hollywood Confidential event honoring Lupita Nyong'o in support of "A Quiet Place: Day One" at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater on June 14, 2024NEED TO KNOWLupita Nyong’o recalled her experience after breaking out in Hollywood with the 2013 biopic …
Lupita Nyong’o Says Oscar Win for ’12 Years a Slave’ Led to Acting Offers to Play More Slaves; One Offer Included the Pitch: ‘This Time You’re on a Slave Ship!’
Lupita Nyong'o won the Oscar for '12 Years a Slave' and then got offered more slave roles by Hollywood.
Lupita Nyong'o Says She Was Only Offered Slave Roles After Oscar Win
Lupita Nyong’o enjoyed near immediate success after her first movie, but what followed was at times challenging. In an interview with CNN’s Inside Africa published on Saturday, November 22, Nyong’o, 42, revealed that though she won an Oscar for her breakthrough performance as Patsey in the 2014 film 12 Years a Slave, she didn’t receive the kind of follow-up film offers that she expected. “But you know what’s interesting is that, after I won that…
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